Name: Integrating AI into Everyday Work Practices
Uploaded: 2025-11-06
Duration: 1:43
Channel: Mark McDermott
Description: I discuss the challenges and insights of incorporating AI into daily work routines. By rethinking our approach and engaging with AI as a primary resource, we can streamline processes and enhance productivity.

I discuss the challenges and insights of incorporating AI into daily work routines. By rethinking our approach and engaging with AI as a primary resource, we can streamline processes and enhance productivity.

Integrating AI into Everyday Work Practices

If you're going through the process of trying to introduce AI into all of your working practices, you are going to stumble at the beginning. Your muscle memory will suggest that you just go back to old ways of working, and then maybe when you hit a roadblock, that's when you might turn to AI. This isn't the right way to do it. You need to start every single task by pausing and thinking, what should I be doing with AI to help me? An example of this is many people have said, when they're trying to achieve something with AI to me, oh, I don't know how to do that. I start by going, well, you have the world's greatest teacher sat right in front of you, have you asked it yet? Now, they're not stupid. They realize that that is just a, oh yeah, because before someone would have had to show me to do this when AI can literally walk you through the steps itself. Even if that's too complicated, you can ask it to simplify it down for you. You have a continuous loop in front of you, which is something you probably previously would have thought about as being a Google search, but this is much more accurate. It can be much more helpful and doesn't require you to do as much of the thinking and research on your side. You just have to keep asking it questions until you get there. Before you begin any task, think, where could AI help me? Or what are the steps that I'm going to take now that I should now hand off to AI? And again, if you're not sure, ask AI. This is kind of a new way of rewiring your brain. It takes a bit of time. I have made many, many mistakes doing it this way, and I've probably wasted a lot of my own time doing things which I could have just asked it to do for me. That's part of the learning process. It starts with you being quite clear and sincere in your thinking that you're going to start with AI first.

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Integrating AI into Everyday Work Practices

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